Study: Sludge-based fertilizer may be causing human illnesses

Suggests more study of sites; closer monitoring

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 4:16 pm

CHAPEL HILL, NC —Treated municipal sewage sludge—the solids from sewage treatment—may be causing illness in people up to a mile from where it is spread on land, according to a recent study.
Those are the findings from researchers at the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

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